title: SOA governance in healthcare organisations.
abstract: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is increasingly adopted by many sectors, including healthcare. Due to the nature of healthcare systems there is a need to increase SOA adoption success rates as the non integrated nature of healthcare systems is responsible for medical errors that cause the loss of tens of thousands patients per year. Following our previous research [1] we propose that SOA governance is a critical success factor for SOA success in healthcare. Literature reports multiple SOA governance models that have limitations and they are confusing. In addition to this, there is a lack of healthcare specific SOA governance models. This highlights a literature void and thus the purpose of this paper is to proposed a healthcare specific SOA governance framework.
authors.affiliation: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koumaditis
authors.forename: Marinos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Themistocleous
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vassilakopoulos
mesh_terms: D057286:Electronic Health Records; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D012986:Software Validation